Laravel - Pass custom data to email view - laravel

Question

Following on from a previous question, I have an email controller set up to correctly pass user data to the view. I am now trying to modify it so I can pass some custom data instead. My controller looks like this...
namespace App\Mail;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
class Welcome extends Mailable
{
use Queueable, SerializesModels;
public $email_data;
public function __construct($email_data)
{
$this->email_data = $email_data;
}
public function build()
{
return $this->view('emails.welcome')->with(['email_data' => $this->email_data]);
}
}
And I am sending the email like this...
/* Create Data Array For Email */
$email_data = array(
'first_name'=>'John',
'last_name'=>'Doe',
'email'=>'john#doe.com',
'password'=>'temp',
);
/* Send Email */
Mail::to($user->email)->send(new Welcome($email_data));
Is this correct? When I try using this method it does not seem to be passing the data through to the email template. How can I then access this data within the view?

Answer 1

Have you tried this way ?
namespace App\Mail;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
class Welcome extends Mailable
{
use Queueable, SerializesModels;
public $data;
public function __construct($data)
{
$this->data = $data;
}
public function build()
{
return $this->view('emails.welcome')->with('data', $this->data);
}
}
and then in your controller from where you are creating your array of data,
$data = [
'first_name'=>'John',
'last_name'=>'Doe',
'email'=>'john#doe.com',
'password'=>'temp'
];
\Mail::to($user->email)->send(new Welcome($data));
Please make sure that you add
use Mail;
use App\Mail\Welcome;
in your controller.
You can access the data in your view like this
{{ $data['first_name'] }}
{{ $data['last_name'] }}
{{ $data['email'] }}
{{ $data['password'] }}
OR
You can also try Markdown mails for this

Answer 2

You don't need this part ->with(['email_data' => $this->email_data]) because if the property is public you can access it in the view.
And you are passing an array so you have to access the values like this :
$email_data['email'] // ...

Answer 3

There are two ways to pass data through the view. First, any public defenses defined in the mailable class pass automatically through the view.
<?php
namespace App\Mail;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
class Welcome extends Mailable
{
use Queueable, SerializesModels;
public $firstName;
public $lastName;
public $email;
public $password;
/**
* Create a new message instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct($firstName, $lastName, $email, $password)
{
$this->firstName = $firstName;
$this->lastName = $lastName;
$this->email = $email;
$this->password = $password;
}
/**
* Build the message.
*
* #return $this
*/
public function build()
{
return $this->view('emails.orders');
}
}
In Blade view
<div>
First Name: {{ $firstName }}
Last Name: {{ $lastName }}
Email: {{ $email }}
Password: {{ $password }}
</div>
For variables with protected and private properties, it is possible to pass data through a view with the with method
namespace App\Mail;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
class Welcome extends Mailable
{
use Queueable, SerializesModels;
protected $firstName;
protected $lastName;
protected $email;
protected $password;
/**
* Create a new message instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct($firstName, $lastName, $email, $password)
{
$this->firstName = $firstName;
$this->lastName = $lastName;
$this->email = $email;
$this->password = $password;
}
/**
* Build the message.
*
* #return $this
*/
public function build()
{
return $this->view('emails.orders')->with([
'first_name'=> $this->firstName,
......
]);
}
}
In Blade view
<div>
First Name: {{ $firstName }}
Last Name: {{ $lastName }}
Email: {{ $email }}
Password: {{ $password }}
</div>